One thing I'm not doing in my older age is explaining myself to culturally clueless white people.

I like writing in an illustrative, descriptive way. I prefer describing to rather than explaining.

when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant.

We need people out talking about the President, explaining, agreeing with and praising his actions.

I lose myself in music because I can't be bothered explaining what I feel to anyone else around me.

You know, I don't like talking about music very much. I have quite the hard time explaining myself.

This is one of those times when explaining a feeling cannot measure up to actually having the feeling

History had its own way of explaining things. The way historians explain things is by telling a story.

There's nothing funnier than religion. Try explaining it to a kid. I had it all wrong when I was a kid.

I like playing guitar I don't like talking about it. I like writing riffs, I don't like explaining them.

Feature film can have a major role in explaining ideas and describing peoples' lives and their struggles.

I was always explaining why my term papers were never on time. I think that's where I got my acting training!

As a legislator, I saw how effective I could be by being transparent, posting and explaining all of my votes.

The closer and more completely you can come to explaining what a work of art means, the less like art it seems.

He's just explaining the situation to her, but he's all over her every chance he gets! Kureno! Touching Tohru!!!

The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me.

Out of Dostoevsky: Kafka. Out of Tolstoy: Margaret Mitchell. (in conversation, explaining his dislike for Tolstoy)

When you start explaining why something's funny or finding a formula for it I think it loses some of its funniness.

A defeated nation is always explaining itself. That's why the best storytellers are always from vanquished nations.

A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

My earliest memories are of my father explaining to me the American Dream and how he expected me to do better than he did.

It's hard talking about acting, in a way, because it's like explaining a joke: I do think it loses something in the telling.

The Japanese are great at inventing complex systems of rules, and not so great at explaining those rules to foreign visitors.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it.

We started writing songs like 'Shook Ones' and 'Survival of the Fittest' explaining our neighborhood, but more our personal lives.

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant.

Normally, I don't like explaining songs. I don't want to kill anyone's interpretation or the story they want to make for themselves.

Explaining to my children, especially my daughter, that I will be dressed as a woman, and will be playing a eunuch was a tough task.

I don't really like to work with a large team and assistants, because then I lose so much time explaining things, which I don't like.

I'm writing a science book - a sort of compendium of all the ways I've found of explaining things to my artsy friends over the years.

I don't remember explaining that I was making electronic music to anyone, but I don't remember anyone being curious about it, either.

There's something which impels us to show our inner souls. The more courageous we are, the more we succeed in explaining what we know.

Grown-ups never understand anything for themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.

Debates go on to this day about what caused the Great Depression. Economics is not very good at explaining swings in economic activity.

You may not be aware of this but Leonard Bernstein won another award, for explaining the music of Igor Stravinsky... to Igor Stravinsky!

GE rolled out a popular TV ad campaign in 2015 explaining why youthful techies should give the 'digital industrial' giant a second look.

It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.

My journey began when I found out about YouTube on how do you make music, and from that, people started explaining me how I had to do it.

It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.

Sometimes I start off shows by explaining to people that it's just a bunch of stories - I always say 'It's like standup, just less funny.'

Without explaining why, and, most of all, without naming other authors or books, I can only say my novels are influenced by love and death.

I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.

Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?

Economists largely confine themselves to three key factors - capital, labor and productivity - when explaining how and why a country grows.

Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided.

I always hate explaining away songs, because for me they mean something, and for other people, they'll mean something absolutely different.

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